Sheridan is a somewhat small city located in the state of Wyoming. With a population of 15,867 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Sheridan is the sixth largest community in Wyoming.

Sheridan is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sheridan is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sheridan who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.85%), sales jobs (10.12%), and food service (7.72%).

One of the benefits of Sheridan is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 14.56 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Being a small city, Sheridan does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Sheridan Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Sheridan who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 21.08% of adults in Sheridan have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Sheridan in 2000 was $18,500, which is upper middle income relative to Wyoming, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $74,000 for a family of four.

The people who call Sheridan home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sheridan is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Sheridan include German, English, Irish, Norwegian, Polish, Scotch-Irish, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Sheridan is English. Some people also speak Spanish.